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Essay / Review of the Woodcock Johnson III Diagnostic Reading Battery...
Review of the Woodcock Johnson III Diagnostic Reading Battery and Critique of the TestSummaryThe report will critique the Woodcock Johnson III Diagnostic Reading Battery (WJ III DRB) and compare my report to the Mental Measurement Yearbook (MMY). The assessment will include assessment, in relation to the WJ III DRB of Woodcock et al. (1989), on the description and purpose of these tests as well as the ease of use, administration and interruption of the results based on the conversion of raw scores into standard scores, including analyzing the results. Finally, evaluate the overall quality of the test. Introduction to the Woodcock Johnson III Diagnostic Reading Battery Referenced Standardized Tests (NRST) used for different administrations over the decades. The NRST classifies individuals. It highlights differences in results between and among students to develop reliable scores. In school systems, NRSTs help identify students for remedial programs. The US Congress, Office of Technology Assessment (1992), established a standardized test that uses (NAGC - ED Norm- and Criterion-Referenced Testing. (nd) (Retrieved from http://www.nagc.org/index.aspx ?id=314). Similar application and grading procedures to ensure that different individuals' results are comparable (Bond, 2010 comparing students' performance with other students from large groups will rank students). decreasing from high to low achievement A valid population should be drawn from the broadest range of the student population. Accordingly, the assessment should also report on the status of student achievement “disaggregated by gender, ethnicity, disability, economic disadvantage, etc.' English proficiency and...... middle of article...... WJ III DRB is a quality test that can help examiners better understand reading skills. candidates and identify their weaknesses. References Stiggins, RJ Student-. Class-centered assessment. New York: Merrill U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment (1992). Testing in American schools: asking the right questions. OTA-SET-519 (Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office). Cizek, G. J. (2003). [Review of Woodcock-Johnson III.] In BS Plake, JC Impara, & RA Spies (Eds.), The fifteenth yearbook of mental measurements (pp. 1020–1024). Lincoln, NE: Buros Institute of Mental Measurements. Sandoval, J. (2003). [Review of Woodcock-Johnson III.] In BS Plake, JC Impara, & RA Spies (Eds.), The fifteenth yearbook of mental measurements (pp. 1024-1028). Lincoln, NE: Buros Institute for Mental Measurements.